Mindshare · PeopleUpdated 2026-10-15 · 16 tracked · history since 2026-07-05
AI People Mindshare · Tracked Daily
Which people in AI draw the most attention, blending Hacker News mentions and Wikipedia pageviews. Tracked daily.
| # | Name | Share | 7d | HN 7d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 42.2% | · | 15 |
| 2 | Dario Amodei CEO, Anthropic | 17.3% | · | 5 |
| 3 | Geoffrey Hinton AI researcher | 12.1% | · | 4 |
| 4 | Jensen Huang CEO, NVIDIA | 9.84% | · | 2 |
| 5 | Simon Willison Developer, writer | 4.07% | · | 2 |
| 6 | Andrej Karpathy AI researcher, educator | 3.54% | · | 1 |
| 7 | Mustafa Suleyman CEO, Microsoft AI | 2.64% | · | 1 |
| 8 | Ilya Sutskever Co-founder, Safe Superintelligence | 2.39% | · | 0 |
| 9 | Demis Hassabis CEO, Google DeepMind | 1.94% | · | 0 |
| 10 | Mira Murati CEO, Thinking Machines Lab | 1.21% | · | 0 |
| 11 | Yann LeCun AI researcher | 1.11% | · | 0 |
| 12 | Fei-Fei Li AI researcher | 1.09% | · | 0 |
| 13 | Arthur Mensch CEO, Mistral AI | 0.28% | · | 0 |
| 14 | Aidan Gomez CEO, Cohere | 0.23% | · | 0 |
| 15 | Clem Delangue CEO, Hugging Face | 0.01% | · | 0 |
| 16 | Georgi Gerganov Creator, llama.cpp | 0.01% | · | 0 |
Share · % of this list's attention over the trailing 7 days. Index · share relative to the leader (100). Sources · Hacker News (60%) · Wikipedia pageviews (40%). Methodology
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Each tracked person gets a share of the attention across its list over the trailing 7 days. Sources: Hacker News (60%), Wikipedia pageviews (40%). Hacker News mentions count stories and comments containing the exact name. Full details on the methodology page.